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Dan Hughes: Developing and Repairing Trust in the Traumatised Child - Therapeutic & Caregiving Interventions

Fri 06 Nov

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London, SE4

Join Dan Hughes, Ph.D. world renowned clinical psychologist for this 1 day event. Focusing on children, adolescents and young people who have experienced abuse and neglect. Exploring the central place of attachment in enabling an individual to resolve conflicts and traumatic experiences.

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Dan Hughes: Developing and Repairing Trust in the Traumatised Child - Therapeutic & Caregiving Interventions
Dan Hughes: Developing and Repairing Trust in the Traumatised Child - Therapeutic & Caregiving Interventions

Time & Location

06 Nov 2020, 09:30 – 16:30

London, SE4, Venn St, Clapham Town, London SW4, UK

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About The Event

Training from the The Sunflower Network

Children, adolescents and young people who have experienced abuse and neglect are at high risk for significant difficulties in their neurological, affective, cognitive, and behavioural development. The central place of attachment in enabling an individual to resolve conflicts and traumatic experiences, develop affect regulation and reflective functioning, and establish a coherent narrative will be explored in this one day workshop with Dan Hughes. 

A resulting attachment-focused treatment - Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) - and attachment-focused care is experiential and reflective and involves establishing attuned states between the young person and the therapist and caregiver in order to safely explore past traumas and current behaviours involving both fear and shame. The treatment involves assisting the young person to develop a coherent story involving both past abusive experiences and current experiences in a safe family.  

This story-telling stance is characterised by playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy (PACE). Strengths…

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